Catharine Clark Gallery – Online presentation of Nina Katchadourian’s “Orientation Video” (2020)
Catharine Clark Gallery’s online debut of Nina Katchadourian’s "Orientation Video" (2020) tells the compelling and complex story of the artist’s 45-year engagement with the book Survive the Savage Sea, the true story of the Robertsons, a family of farmers in England who sold all their possessions to buy a sailboat, with the intent of sailing around the world for several years. In June 1972, the Robertsons lost their sailboat in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean when a pod of Orca smashed the hull, leaving the four adults and two children adrift for 38 days; Katchadourian’s "Orientation Video" tells the family’s story, as well as the artist’s own creative response to the book’s core themes of isolation, uncertainty, and survival.